[Illustration: L'Envoi] Heavy skies lowered above us, the landscape seen through the driving mist-wreaths showed a depressing repetition of drabs and greys as we journeyed towards Calais.

The grey mist murders.

And I lay there in the moss-bushes, until they were well gone away; and I had belief that they must be those same mist-men that were told of in certain of the olden Records; but were never seen anigh to the Pyramid; though I had thought, odd times, to see men, as of mist, through the Great Spy-Glass, when I was within the Tower of Observation.

At ten o'clock of a puffy, mist-laden morning a new and strong crew of nine men boarded the Laughing Lass.

He opened it, and endeavoured to read it, but a mist swam before his eyes.

Here and there were enormous mist-clouds which hung way down to the sea's outer edge, and obstructed the view.

mock me not!with night-struck eyes upraised, Still fronting full the dome where once I gazed, Yearns my unsighted soul through dimmest space Before it let these earth-mists sink abased; Let me behold the All before I die, Passing, swift-wing'd, into Eternity; Let me no more these shapeless shadows chase!

Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move; For fools admire, but men of sense approve: As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify.

The mornings of the month are generally foggy, and are thus described by a modern poet: "Not pleasureless the morn, when dismal fog Rolls o'er the dewy plain, or thin mist drives; When the lone timber's saturated branch Drips freely.

We paddled from the camp to the lake-foot, and there, while the others compacted the portables for portage, Iglesias and I, at cost of a ducking with mist-drops from the thickets, scrambled up a crag for a supreme view of the fair lake and the clear mountain.

Over the head of Honoria appeared a cloud, at first black, and soon in this a nucleus of light, which expanded and shaped itself into an image and took the form of the sleeper, nude and spiritual, a belt of rosy mist enveloping and concealing all but a head and bust of ravishing beauty.

The Indian summera delightful week in the beginning of November, when the air is mild and still, and a beautiful blueish mist floats in the atmosphere, through which the landscape is seen as through a veil of gossamerhad come and gone, and a slight flurry of snow had covered the ground with a white mantle, when one morning a great squealing was heard from the pen in which the pigs were now kept.

The tears started into his eyes, and feeling a mist gathering over mine, I gave his hand a parting pressure, turned my back upon Cassel and started up the long mountain, at a desperate rate.

This was the sole reason why he was incapable of taking his eyes off from her the whole of that night; and this incident settled the point, not only with the old people, but even the young ladies were forced, after every exertion on their own parts, to "yild the p'int to their sister Loony, who certainly was not the mist genteelest nor mist handsomest of that guid-lucking fimily.

Then something seemed to break like an over-stretched banjo string, and he sank into the deep, deep, mist-girt abyss of unconsciousness.

She turns the page; she starts; the colour deserts her countenance; a mist glides over her vision; she clasps her hands with convulsive energy; she sinks back in her chair.

Dawn had dispelled the mist-gloom and as the mainlanders drew nearer he discerned in their lead a figure that brought a cry of joy from his lips.

There in its last volcanic throes A dying world perhaps dissolves; Further still, where the sun-mist glows, A mighty, new-born sun evolves; Ceaseless change in an endless sky!

In some cantons it goes by the name of "mist-healing," while in others it is called "butter-churning."

A faint wind had power to billow this mist-lake, and drive cresting surges up against the eastern hill-side, over which they sometimes broke, and, involving it totally, rolled clear and free toward Katahdin, where he stood hiding the glows of sunrise.

All behind that strange misty entering on the coach-steps is grey, empty mist-land.

It is safer to lie quiet until the mist lifts.

Gradually, the mist lifting, he saw long files of men-at-arms riding along very orderly, with archers and pike-men.

Or again, what combination of richness with simplicity in such a passage as this: Breathe upon my brows; In that fine air I tremble, all the past Melts mist-like into this bright hour, and this I scarce believe, and all the rich to come Reels, as the golden Autumn woodland reels Athwart the smoke of burning leaves.

I thought that the valleys and the mountains arose from the mist obedient to me.